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CAROLINE PARKS, OF MILAN, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 102,309, dated April 26, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN SWIFT AND REE-11|.

The Schedule referred to these Letters Patent and making part of the same 'To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CROLINE PARKS, of Milan, county of Erie and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and Improved Winding Clack-Reel and Swifts combined; and 'I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and complete description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specification, in which drawings- Figure 1 is a side view of the apparatus.

Figure 2a view of the top.

Like letters ,of reference refer to like parts.

This invention relates to the 'construction and arrangement of parts as hereinafter more fully described, forming a swift and reel.

In fig. l-

A represents aihollow pyramidal metal standard having a broad base on which it stands, and by means of which it may be secured to the table for-use.

In the apex of said standard is `fitted,'lo'osely, 'a spindle, C, to the extreme ends of which are secured, by means of the thumb-screw D, the radial arms E, iig. 2. Said arms are four in number, and arrangedfin pairs; one member. of' each pair is superimposed one upon the other, as shbwn in iig. 1, E F being a side view of one pair of arms.

The extreme end of each arm is provided with thi-ee fingers G H I, forming two divisions at each end' of the arm.

This part of the apparatus, with the. standard, constitutes the swift upon which is wound the yarn from the spindle of the spinning-wheel. The arms. of the swift being made in pairs, as above described, allow of their extension and contraction in order to' accommodate them to different-'sized skeins that may be re'- quired.

A series of holes, a, ranged along each arm, admits of their adj ustment on the spindle.

In order to convert the swift into a reel for the purpose of skeining the yarn, the arms E are removed from the spindle and adjusted upon the end of the horizontal shaft J, to which they are secured in like manner by the thumb-screw D.

The position of the arm is now changed from a horizontal to a-vertical relation to the standard, and

thus revolves as a reel for winding the yarn.

'lhe amount in each skein being determined by a click, consisting of a spring, K, the free end of which is made to rest upon the cam-wheel L, operated by an endless screw, m, on the shaft J in the teeth of the wheel at each revolution of the wheel the spring falls into a notch, making a click, therebynoting each revolution, and, consequently, each skein or knot of yarn run on` the reel.

By this easy and immediate conversion of a swift into a reel, and per contra a reel into a swift, is saved the expense of two machines usually employed for this purpose.

It is, also, much more convenient, as it occupies less room, and can be placedA upon the table and thereon used, instead of standing upon the Hoor as the reel and swift now in use.

It is also much more convenient than the ordinary reel and swift, and, being constructed of metal, is, therefore, greatly more durable.

Claim.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The chambered metal standard or support A B, screw-shaft J, cam-wheel L, secured to the pinion and spring K, in connection with the adjustable forked arms E and spindle C, all constructed, arranged, and operated as described, to form a` combined windingreel and swift as set forth.

CAROLINE PARKS.

AWitnesses:

F. POTTER, C. M. COLLINS. 

